Grund studied architecture at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee from 1952 to 1957, taught among others by Selman Selmanagić, who had trained at the Bauhaus. She worked for two years in Hermann Henselmann's office and briefly for Ernst May in Hamburg in 1959, returning to the German Democratic Republic the same year out of political conviction. That year, aged twenty-six, she won the competition for the Haus der Kultur und Bildung in Neubrandenburg, opened in 1965. From 1970 to 1990 she was Neubrandenburg's city architect — the highest position an architect could hold in the GDR, and one that no woman held in West Germany at the time. She was one of the most influential architects of the GDR, and published an autobiography in 2004.
